For us poor guys out there recording and mixing

[Scott Baxendale]

I have begun using an amp and mic instead of guitar sims a couple years ago, but it sucks too because I only have a small closet2 and I have packing blankets surrounding the mic. Any mix tips are welcome, and sorry about my singing voice, I hate it myself, lol.

I kinda like the hard panned guitars. The recording sounds great.

 

[Thekesslerboy]

More on the panned guitars, I do recall listening to Lou Reed's song Paranoia Key of E, and those guitars seemed panned pretty hard left and right. Without tracks panned 100 percent right and left to compare to, I can't imagine being able to tell if the guitars are 100 percent or 9 percent panned. But I love the panning in this Lou Reed song, though he has no clashing chord, lol. Do these guitars effect you in the same way? This is what I was listening to at the time trying to get this type of guitar sound. No doubt I could find a thousand such songs with guitars panned hard left and right and yet not the same parts to do the wall-of-sound thing. I do recall mixing in phones because I am in my small bedroom, so maybe I need to refernce to speakers as well.

I think I remember him saying the two guitars were panned hard left and right on the New York album, in 1989. That was before I really understood what that meant. When I pan I usually only go to 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock, as it feels off putting going any further for my stuff. But sometimes that's the specific intent with artists.